VMware VC-SRM4-A Developer's Guide - Page 22

Site Recovery Manager API Developer's Guide Protection Groups and Replication This section covers the SRM API methods for protection groups and virtual machine replication. ListInventoryMappings You establish inventory mappings and placeholder datastores as described in the SRM Administration Guide. This method returns the configured inventory mappings Example 3-9. Method to list inventory mappings inventoryMappingInfo = _service.ListInventoryMappings(_svcRef); Parameter and return value:  _svcRef - managed object reference to an SrmProtection object  inventoryMappingInfo - a list of inventory mappings from the protected site to the recovery site:  folders - a list of mapped VirtualMachine Folders  networks - a list of mapped virtual machine Networks and dvPortgroups  pools - a list of mapped Resource Pools ListProtectionGroups This method lists the configured protection groups. Example 3-10. Method to list protection groups SrmProtectionGroup[] = _service.ListProtectionGroups(_svcRef); Parameter and return value:  _svcRef - managed object reference to an SrmProtection object  SrmProtectionGroup[] - an array of managed object references to all the SrmProtectionGroup managed objects that are currently configured ListReplicatedDatastores This method queries and lists replicated datastores. A datastore is replicated if it contains any virtual machines in a protection group. Example 3-11. Method to list replicated datastores Datastore[] = _service.ListReplicatedDatastores(_svcRef); Parameter and return value:  _svcRef - managed object reference to an SrmProtection object  Datastore[] - an array of managed object references to the replicated Datastore managed objects You can also query protected virtual machines with "ProtectionGroupQueryVmProtection" on page 26. ProtectVms This method adds virtual machines to a protection group. With array based replication, the protection group is determined by datastore location of the virtual machines. With vSphere replication (VR), you use the AssociateVms method to place virtual machines into a protection group. 22 VMware, Inc.